<p>As one of the most important means of globalization for companies around the world, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been adopted as a core growth and expansion strategy. M&A integration involves combination in various areas, in which cultural integration has an important role. Nevertheless, the potential positive and negative impact of cultural dimensions on the success of M&A activity is somewhat less acknowledged in the business community.</p><p>The purpose of this paper is to explore problematic cultural issues in order to get an understanding of the characteristics and outcome of cultural integration as influenced by both national culture and organizational culture in M&A.</p><p>In order to fulfil the purpose a qualitative case study approach was chosen. Semi-structured phone interviews were made with the top managers who were responsible for the deal and employees that worked for both companies during the transition period. In addition, two survey were conducted among KPMG and Andesen members.</p><p>It could be summarized that KPMG and Andersen deal result in a great loss of ex-Andersen employees, due to the resistence from employees to the new culture after integration.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-237).

Organisationskultur är det arbetsklimat och de arbetssätt som företag skapar utifrån sina värderingar och visioner. En central aspekt av organisationskultur är att förmedla företagets värderingar och få medarbetare att göra värderingarna till sina egna, för att på så sätt förbättra företagets produktivitet och resultat. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur strategier för att förmedla organisationskultur på en arbetsplats kan skapa motivation och samtidigt styra de anställda. För att undersöka detta genomfördes en kvalitativ studie på ett rekryteringsföretag, där tio semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med anställda på olika positioner. Fokus låg på att få en helhetsbild av företagets kultur och arbetssätt för att se hur dessa kan motivera och styra de anställda. För att tolka våra resultat har vi utgått från Foucaults teori om makt med fokus på disciplineringsprocessen. Resultatet visar att organisationskultur inom företaget implementeras och förmedlas via olika strategier som på olika sätt motiverar och samtidigt styr de anställda. Vi valde att kategorisera dessa strategier som: Värderingar och stämning, Arbetsuppgifternas utformning, Rekrytering och introduktion, Fysiska arbetsmiljö, Mål och feedback samt Ledarskap och kommunikation. Slutsatsen av denna studie är alltså att strategier som syftar till att motivera de anställda på det undersökta företaget på ett eller annat sätt kan få en styrande och kontrollerande effekt. Detta bland annat genom öppen kommunikation, informellt ledarskap och goda sociala relationer mellan kollegor. / Organizational culture is described as the working environment and practices that companies create based on their values ​​and visions. A central aspect of organizational culture is to convey the company’s values ​​and get the employees to make the values their own, thus improving the company's productivity and profits. The purpose of this paper is to examine how strategies to convey the organizational culture of a workplace can create motivation and simultaneously control the employees. To examine this, a qualitative study of a recruitment agency has been carried out, where ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with employees in different positions. The focus was on getting a complete overall picture of the company's culture and work practices to see how they can motivate and control employees. To interpret our results, we have applied Foucault's theory of power, focusing on the disciplinary process. The result of the study shows that organizational culture within the company is implemented and communicated via various strategies, which in different ways motivate and simultaneously control the employees. We chose to categorize these strategies as: Values ​​and atmosphere, Task design, Recruitment and introduction, Physical working environment, Goals and feedback and Leadership and communication. Consequently, the conclusion of this study is that strategies that aim to motivate the employees of the investigated company in one way or another can have a governing and controlling effect, such as open communication, informal leadership and good social relationships between colleagues.

This ethno-historical undertaking captures the story of the implementation of one major US city's first and only single-sex public school and the consequent shaping of the school culture according to its unique context. A comprehensive literature review demonstrates race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, and other contextual factors are important considerations when probing educational access and achievement and the development of school cultures. Moreover, principals -- their individual attributes and the cultures they create -- are key to understanding and interrogating equitable practices in schools. Findings substantiate the complex interface between historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, stakeholder decision making in the ethnographic present, and the enactment and negotiation school culture vis-à-vis the intersectionalities of student identities. Findings suggest the conditions that facilitated the high achievement of the students in this study might be transferred under the right conditions including: a balance of strong leadership and principal and teacher autonomy; the enduring belief that any student can and will learn; a rigorous, non-segregated, college prep program, and; an informal curriculum that prepares students for academic and professional cultures. Findings also bring to the fore important considerations that must be addressed by practitioners and policymakers alike; specifically, students' difficulties concerning the "burden of acting white" and the "burden of acting straight." Finally, findings from this study suggest single-sex public options can be done legitimately and effectively but additional safeguards must be implemented by the US Department of Education to ensure both male and female students' civil rights are protected. Additionally, while some magnet schools such as the one studied are local sites of resistance that play a liberatory role for those distinctively involved, one cannot surmise that such local efforts -- which may be viewed by some as a site of relative privilege -- can alone overcome the serious striations that exist in the greater society. / text

Darbo tikslas: Atskleisti N ligoninės kultūrą slaugytojų požiūriu. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Ištirti N ligoninės organizacijos kultūros veiksnius. 2. Palyginti skirtingą stažą turinčių slaugytojų požiūrį į N ligoninės organizacijos kultūrą. 3. Paruošti veiksmų gaires, siekiant stiprinti N ligoninės organizacijos kultūrą. Tyrimo metodika. Tyrimo objektas. N ligoninės kultūra. Tyrimo metodai. Tyrimo instrumentarijus remiasi Denison (2000) parengta metodologija. Organizacijos kultūros modelio pagrindą sudaro keturi kultūros bruožai: įsitraukimas, nuoseklumas, adaptyvumas ir misija. Išplatinta 150 anketų, atsako dažnis 97,3 %. Statistinės analizės metodai: Duomenų analizei panaudota statistinio duomenų analizės paketo SPSS 13,0 versija. Nustatyti skirtumams tarp kelių skirtingų grupių buvo taikomas Kruskal-Wallis testas. Hipotezės apie dviejų požymių nepriklausomumą buvo tikrinamos naudojant chi kvadrato (χ²) kriterijų. Kintamųjų reikšmėms palyginti buvo naudojami procentinių dažnių 95 % pasikliautinieji intervalai. Rodiklių skirtumai laikyti statistiškai reikšmingais, kai p<0,05. Įvairiems vertinimams palyginti buvo skaičiuojami empiriniai vidurkiai ir standartiniai nuokrypiai. Rezultatai. N ligoninė turi vidutinį įsitraukimo laipsnį (įverčio aritmetinis vidurkis - 2,93 balo iš 4 galimų), vidutiniškai išreikštą nuoseklumą (įverčio aritmetinis vidurkis - 2,78 balo iš 4 galimų), adaptyvumą (įverčio aritmetinis vidurkis - 2,77 balo iš 4 galimų), misijos pojūtį (įverčio aritmetinis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study. To evaluate opinion of nurses about N hospital organization culture. Objectives: 1. To analyze factors in N hospital organization culture. 2. To compare viewpoint of nurses with different experience to N hospital organization culture. 3. To prepare action guidelines to strength N hospital culture. Methods. The study object - N hospital culture. Research instrumentations are based on Denison (2000) methodology. Model basement of organization culture consists from four culture elements: involvement, consistency, adaptability and mission. Circulated 150 questionnaires, responserate 97.3%. For data analysis statistical data analysis program SPSS 13.0 version was used. To define differences between some different groups was used Kruskal-Wallis test. Hypothesis about independence of two features was checked by using chi quadrat (X) canon. To compare variables was used percentage frequency 95% reliance intervals. Index differences counted statistical weighty, when p<0.05. To compare different rating was counted empirical averages and conventional declination. Results. N hospital has average involvement degree (mean - 2.93), average worded consistency (mean - 2.78), adaptability (mean - 2.77), mission sense (mean - 2.77). Nurses with working experience till 1 year, the same as nurses with experience 20 and more years, had more worded opinion about organization culture. Nurses with working experience 2-5 years and nurses with experience 16-20 years organization... [to full text]

Magistro darbo tikslas – ištirti organizacijos kultūros formavimo aspektus Šiaulių miesto gimnazijose, panaudojant Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), sukurtą K. S. Cameron ir R. E. Quinn. Darbe išanalizuoti ir susisteminti įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių darbai ir tyrimai organizacijos kultūros formavimo bei keitimo klausimais. Buvo pastebėta, kad organizacijos kultūra turi ypatingą reikšmę organizacijai, jos veiklos efektyvumui, strategijai, įvaizdžio formavimui. Taip pat pabrėžtinas ypatingas vadovo vaidmuo organizacijos kultūros formavimo bei keitimo procese. Ištyrus Šiaulių miesto gimnazijų vadovų bei darbuotojų nuostatas apie organizacijose dominuojantį kultūros tipą, autorės suformuluota primoji hipotezė pasitvirtino iš dalies: visose gimnazijose be klano kultūros pastebimas ir kitų kultūrų dominavimas; antroji hipotezė pasitvirtino: pastebimas visų vadovų pritarimas adhokratinei kultūrai ateityje. / The aim of this paper is to analyze the aspects of shaping organizational culture in Šiauliai gymnasiums using Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), developed by K. S. Cameron and R. E. Quinn. Works and researches of Lithuanian and foreign authors on the issues of shaping and changing organizational culture have been analyzed and systematized. It should be noted, that organizational culture has a special influence on organization, its performance and effectiveness, strategy, and image formation. Also, a specific role of leaders in the process of shaping and changing organizational culture should be emphasized. Having accomplished attitudes of Šiauliai gymnasiums leaders and personnel towards dominant type of culture in the organizations the first hypothesis has been proved partly: apart from clan culture dominance of other types has also been noted; the second hypothesis has been proved: all leaders approve of adhocracy in the future.

Magistro tikslas – ištirti statybų organizacijos kultūros formavimo aspektus. Darbe išanalizuoti ir susisteminti įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio mokslininkų darbai organizacijos kultūros formavimo ypatumų klausimas, organizacijos kultūros funkcijos, lygiai bei tipai. Ištyrus UAB „Beržas“ darbuotojų nuomonę apie organizacijos kultūros formavimo veiksnius, suformuluota hipotezė, kad organizacijos kultūra yra stipri pasitvirtino iš dalies: kai kuriuos aspektus darbuotojai įvertino nepalankiai. Magistro darbo pabaigoje pateikiamos išvados ir rekomendacijos. / The aim of paper is to analyse the aspects of organization culture formation in construction company. Works and researches theoretical peculiarities of different Lithuanian and foreign authors on the issues of culture formation, organization culture functions, levels and types. The opinion of UAB „Beržas“ employees about organization culture formation showed that master‘s work hypothesis has been proved partly: organization‘s members some aspects appraised in negative way. There are some findings and recommendations in the end of the master‘s work.

In a world where everything from dating to shopping to conducting business can be performed online, competitive sport has remained an activity in which its online component is mostly relegated to news, chat or fan forums, or fantasy-league interactions. The physicality of competitive sports does not lend itself to an online format—until now. CrossFit (CF) is one of the fastest growing new fitness programs in the world, and is based largely on online communities and networks. In 2011, CrossFit Incorporated (CF Inc.), the creator of this worldwide fitness network, conducted the world’s largest online CF sporting competition, where individuals recorded their performances online for public consumption, interaction and judging. Over 25,000 individuals and teams from around the world participated in 2011 which relies heavily on participation and feedback, trust, social media and networking for its success. By uncovering the essential components of the unique operating community of CF through analysis of quantitative data, in-depth qualitative interviews, and textual analysis, this paper suggests a model for producing a successful global sporting event online and discusses whether it may be applied to other athletic organizations to increase their worldwide exposure and increase members access to global opportunities. Findings determined a mix of criteria including attracting and retaining like-minded individuals through a strong focus on cohesion, inclusion, and competition; strong local autonomy and control; and a willingness on the part of members to promote the sport for the perceived wellbeing of others as necessary to a strong, effective online component in facilitating global competition online.

Att företag tar fram kärnvärden som ett sätt att ge de anställda riktlinjer för hur de ska agera inom företaget blir allt mer vanligt, men fyller dessa kärnvärden till fullo den funktion i företaget som de är framtagna för? Syftet med denna studie har varit att ge en bild av hur ett specifikt företag, i denna studie Peab, arbetar med att förmedla sina kärnvärden och hur de anställda uppfattar och förhåller sig till dessa värden. För att få fram viktig bakgrundsinformation gjordes det en dokumentgranskning av det material som har tillhandahållits från Peab gällande deras kärnvärden och hur de arbetar med att förmedla dessa. I denna studie har en kvalitativ ansats valts och det genomfördes sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med två olika yrkeskategorier inom företaget, som i denna studie benämns som chefer och yrkesarbetare. Studiens resultat visar att den information som ges kontinuerligt till Peabs medarbetare skiljer sig åt beroende på vilken av de två ovannämnda yrkeskategorierna de anställda tillhör. Detta leder i sin tur till skilda uppfattningar om vad kärnvärdenas uppgift är i företaget och hur hög graden av överensstämmelse är mellan respondenternas egna personliga värderingar och kärnvärdena. / That organizations develop core values as a way to give employees guidance on how to act in the company becomes more common, but are these core values filling the function of the company as they are developed to do? The purpose of this study was to provide a picture of how a specific company , in this study, Peab, is working to convey their core values and how employees perceive and relate to these values. In order to obtain important background information, a document review was made of the material that has been provided from Peab concerning their core values and how they work to convey them. In this study, a qualitative approach was selected and six semi-structured interviews was carried out with two different professional groups in the company, which in this study is referred to as managers and skilled workers. Our result demonstrate that the information given continuously to Peab employees differ depending on which of the above two occupational categories the employees belong to. This in turn leads to different perceptions of what the core values role are in the company and how high the degree of agreement between respondents' personal values and the core values are.

The purpose of this action research study was to understand the research training climate in anesthesiology at the University of Saskatchewan, and to collaboratively determine strategies for addressing persistent challenges to resident research training. Whilst there have been a number of published research training programs, influence over priorities has been top-down. Medical educators have lacked a model for collaboratively enhancing the research climate for trainees in anesthesiology. A three-phase, sequential mixed methods design was employed. In phase one, residents completed the revised Research Training Environment Scale as a quantitative measure of the research climate. In phase two, ten residents and six faculty mentors participated in semi-structured interviews to explore the underlying reasons for lower-scored items, and to generate suggestions for improvements to guide three simultaneous action research cycles. An advisory group collaboratively decided upon three actions for improvement of the research training climate. Phase three followed the initiation of three simultaneous action research cycles to reflexively evaluate the impact of these actions. The use of action research to identify shortcomings, generate solutions, and collaboratively choose actions for improving the research training program inspired changes to the research climate including: 1) the addition of research presentations by senior residents and faculty mentors at the research orientation for first-year residents to enhance communication of ongoing and new research ideas, and provide earlier exposure to faculty, 2) the creation of an online repository of research resources for enhanced communication of research ideas and to offer examples of past study-related documents, and 3) the encouragement of resident collaboration by offering a range of options such as involvement in individual projects, new team projects, and ongoing projects. Furthermore, during the course of this research, residents and faculty engaged in reflection-on-action and highlighted several additional suggestions for future action research cycles. This research offers two main contributions to theory. First, this study produced a model whereby action research could be used by others in pre-existing resident research training programs. Second, this study further conceptualized research culture in one postgraduate medical education, specifically by elucidating some of the underlying assumptions that formed the essence of the culture.